Although several students complained, police in Bangkok refused to take up a criminal case against Wirat Thassanatikom – instead referring him to the Department of Land Transport.
According to Thai news site Khaosod, the department fined him 1,000baht (£23) and ordered him to sit through an three-hour lecture on ‘good manners’.
The latest incident happened on Sunday, when student Kunyaphat Pitchayapukdee was riding in Wirat’s cab with four friends.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/28/taxi-driver-who-threatened-to-rape-and-kill-young-women-told-to-take-etiquette-course-6477943/
Comment: Fined £23 for threatening Rape.
You would not get away with that in Manchester;
Here in Manchester you would get a bloody good telling off;
If you actually commit rape here in Manchester, you could get a Police Caution...and that's no Laughing matter.
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Uber was having a bad month even before Waymo, Google’s self-driving car outfit, filed a bombshell lawsuit accusing the ridesharing giant of swiping gobs of its autonomous driving tech.
Now, on top of political criticisms of CEO Travis Kalanick and accusations of a sexist corporate culture, the company must worry about a legal dispute that could cost it a truckload of money, kill its self-driving research, and even land more than one executive in prison.
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-robocar-lawsuit-kill-ubers-future-send-execs-prison/
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BOLTON
A New Year reveller was raped by a taxi driver who had driven her home, a court heard.
A jury at Bolton Crown Court was told how Faizal Mohamed forced his way into the woman’s Deane flat after she had celebrated the arrival of 2016 with her friends in Bolton town centre.
Giving evidence from behind screens, the woman in her 50s told how she fled upstairs and into the first room she came to, her bedroom, where 31-year-old Mohamed, who remained silent throughout, pushed her down on to the bed, pulled down her underwear and raped her.
Michael Brady, prosecuting, told the court how the woman and two friends had spent New Year’s Eve 2015 at Downtown in Bradshawgate and then in the Venue club in Churchgate before ringing First Call taxis at 3.20am to take them home.
Mohamed arrived and dropped one of the women off at her home before driving the alleged victim and her pal to Deane.
While the friend went into the flat, the woman paid the £4.50 fare, got out of the car and started walking to her front door.
“As soon as I touched the handle to close the door I felt a force on the door,” the woman said, who added that she fled up the stairs as Mohamed “barged” his way into the flat.
She said she headed for the first open door “just to go somewhere safe”.
“He was right behind me,” she added.
"I was just about to close the bedroom door and I thought, 'have I got time to to close it?; and he was right there."
The woman told the court that she told him to stop. “I’m telling him no and he is not listening,” she said.
“I was just in shock. It wasn’t even that long — I’d say about two minutes.”
Afterwards, she said he pulled up his trousers and ran back down the stairs without saying a word.
Mr Brady said that the woman’s friend, who had gone into the flat before her, heard her shouts of ‘”no” but did not intervene.
“Fearful of what was going on she stayed in the kitchen,” he added.
The alleged victim admitted she delayed calling police for two hours. “I think it was because of all I’d have to go through. At first I thought 'I can’t do that'," she said.
“But talking to my friend she said I have got to do it — he could do it to somebody else.”
Mohamed, of Blackburn Road, Haslingden, was arrested later the same day.
He admitted having sex with the woman but claimed it had been consensual.
Mr Brady added that he alleged the woman had been flirting with him when his car stopped outside her flat, she had given him a New Year kiss through his open car window and invited him into her flat. Mohamed, who has pleaded not guilty to rape, claims the woman performed a sex act on him before they had full sex.
But when she asked whether he would stay he refused, leaving immediately, saying he had to get back to work.
The woman denied suggestions by Joanna Rodikis, defending, that she had asked Mohamed to come into her flat and made her complaint to police because the sex had been “bad or disappointing” and she regretted it.
“I wouldn’t invite a stranger into my home,” she said.
The trial continues.
http://bit.ly/2mbXxFS
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WOLVERHAMPTON STATION
Taxis have been clogging up residential streets since changes were made to entrance of the station earlier this year.
Wolverhampton council has employed the new taxi marshal with the aim of improving both taxi and customer access to the city’s new railway station turnaround area.
The marshal began work on Friday and will posted at the station from 4pm to midnight, seven days a week. The marshal will be responsible for directing members of the public to Hackney carriages and private hire services, and talking to the drivers to help improve traffic flow.
They will also be on the look out for illegal touting for business and will report back to the council’s compliance officers about their findings.
After a three-week trial, the impact of the marshal’s role will be reviewed.
http://bit.ly/2m1pWxQ
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Uber faces yet another antitrust lawsuit brought by cab companies, this time in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fourteen Boston area taxi companies filed a complaint [PDF] against Uber on Monday in a district court alleging that the ride platform provider violates state laws and city ordinances and deceives passengers about the safety of its vehicles and drivers.
"Uber's business plan and activity illegally undermine critical safety provisions of the municipal Taxi Rules," the complaint states. "Uber's UberX transportation system preys parasitically on established taxi services without paying for them and without obeying the laws designed to protect taxi passengers."
The taxi companies contend that Uber controls an estimated 80 per cent of the low-cost, on-demand ride-hail market in their area.
Uber, famous for flouting regulations in order to expand faster than competitors or regulators can respond, has become a lawsuit magnet. This latest complaint is the sixth civil case filed against the company in US federal court during the month of February. It was the target of nine civil lawsuits in January and 11 in December.
http://bit.ly/2lUQGht
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